85-year-old aiming to be oldest Everest climber dies

Mr Sherchan, was born in Nepal and first scaled Everest in May 2008 when he was 78.

Doctors suspected heart attack as the cause of his death.

Sherchan had first successfully climbed the mountain in May 2008 at the age of 76, becoming the then oldest man to assent to the top.

"I am OK and doing very well here to achieve the goal", Sherchan told THT Online by mobile from the base camp on Friday (5 May) morning. He was later bested by Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura, who was 80 when he summited the world's tallest mountain in 2013.

He is second mountaineer to die in a week while preparing to climb the world's highest peak.

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